Folk singer songwriter to perform in Orland Park March 9
ORLAND PARK IL - The Orland Park Library, 14921 Ravinia Avenue, welcomes folk singer songwriter Mark Dvorak to their Sunday concert series on March 9 at 2:00 pm.
“Mark is an Orland Park favorite,” said Kelli Adams, Adult Services Program Coordinator at the library. “We had him outdoors last year for our Summer Series and we’re thilled to have him back for an afternoon show."
“At this stage of the game,” said the singer from his home outside Chicago, Illinois, “I feel like I’m doing my best work.”
Dvorak who accompanies himself on guitar, 5-string banjo and 12-string guitar is celebrating the release of his 20th CD, Live & Alone, recorded in an empty concert hall during the height of the pandemic lock down, and his fourth book of essays, 31 Winters, which reflects on his long journey through music and teaching.
The Chicago Tribune has called Dvorak “masterful,” and the Fox Valley Folk Festival describes him as “a living archive of song and style.” Dvorak has won awards for journalism and children’s music, and was honored in 2013 with the FARM Lantern Bearer Award from Folk Alliance International. In 2008 he received the Woodstock Folk Festival Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2012 Rich Warren, long time host of The Midnight Special radio program named Dvorak “Chicago’s official troubadour.”
The event free and copies of Dvorak’s CDs and books will be available for purchase. For more information phone 708.428.5100 or visit www.orlandparklibrary.org.
Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.